Sometimes a formula for a magnum opus fails terribly and leaves fans, actors, producers and basically everyone aghast with shock. Karan Johar’s Kalank which became a terrible disaster like its name, had raised some expectations, only to crush them later.

While some called it a ‘SLB ki sasti copy’, it had some good performances in the face of Alia and Madhuri and of course the music was melodious. The big budget flop’s responsibility was reasonably taken by the producer KJO himself.

Now, the writer of the movie, Hussain Dalal, has graciously accepted that it indeed was a big budget flop and it is somewhere on him as well.

In an interview with a net portal, he claimed, “The thing about success is that you wake up the same person in the morning. I wake up, I'll have my chai, read the newspaper... Success is very intangible. You can't see it; it's only for the world... I've felt failure, when a movie goes down. For me, a big film went down two years ago; Kalank went down. And the sense of responsibility you feel, that maybe you ruined it, that your writing was so bad that people couldn't watch the film. Failure is a more tangible emotion for an artist. Success is always in the perspective of others... Success is never for the artist, it's always in retrospect. Failure is a great teacher, it makes an artist".

Many viewers complained that overenthusiasm shown in terms of high flying poetic dialogues and unfinished direction ruined it for them. Hussain agreed and said, “I learned. I went overboard with the poetry. Perhaps if I had simplified it, I could have communicated better. Kalank was so personal to me, such a beautiful story; I take full responsibility for maybe having ruined it a little bit with over-poetry.” 

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